Chapter 629
Hard
Chapter 629 Hard
Mid-1996 was a season of harvest.
The world's first cloned sheep, Dolly, was born; the 26th Summer Olympics in the United States were in full swing; China's Ninth Five-Year Plan was officially launched, once again emphasizing economic growth and structural adjustment; and Zhang Chaoyang, who returned from MIT, founded the internet company Aitexin, ushering in an era of internet entrepreneurship and heroes in China.
Of course, these grand narratives are too far removed from students; the lights and shadows flash and the sounds are powerful, but they lack the warmth of youth.
The campus was as hot as a man with kidney deficiency during summer vacation.
It is internally empty, devoid of vitality, and limp.
During the day, the sun shines brightly, and cicadas incessantly occupy the campus, their calls deafening; only ants crawl on the roads. At night, the remaining students emerge like cave-dwelling animals, aimlessly wandering like lost souls.
A small number of students who already have girlfriends are incredibly lucky at this time of year.
Song Junxian tutored students during the day and organized the remaining students to play tractor games at night. They became more and more addicted to the game. After the dormitory lights were turned off, they moved to the water room to play. In the middle of the night, bursts of cheers or strange shouts would erupt. Their lives were incredibly fulfilling.
Zhou Dingchuan worked part-time at Zhangji Catering, where his main job was to organize various marketing and promotional activities for spicy crayfish in the streets and alleys. In just a few days, he got so tanned that he looked like he had just returned from mining in Africa.
Ma Rulong has woken up.
According to his attending physician, his multiple organ failure caused by bee venom was treated entirely through plasma exchange and perfusion filtration of the toxins, as well as the use of large doses of hormones to suppress the excessive immune response. During the most dangerous days, Ma Rulong's kidney function was almost completely lost, and he needed to use seven or eight thousand milliliters of plasma a day just for exchange, which is equivalent to replacing all of his blood twice a day.
They just stubbornly endured it, spending money like water.
Ma Jianguo sold the Dongfeng truck at a low price and borrowed a lot of money. He still couldn't get back the 70,000 yuan investment that Wang Xiufen had invested. Yongxin Trust had already collapsed and been seized. Tens of thousands of investors like her wanted to recover their money, which could amount to more than 1 billion yuan. Such a huge sum of money is currently impossible to pay out. Zhang Yunqi paid for the medical expenses, giving 280,000 yuan in total, and in the end, he invested more than 400,000 yuan.
In 1996, 40 yen could buy two or three decent houses in downtown Rita.
What does it mean for a family to decline in fortune?
This idiot is always so carefree and irresponsible. Once he recovers, he'll probably have a chance to truly experience the hardships of life.
Zhang Yunqi is very busy.
He hurriedly cleaned up the mess and returned to Jiangchuan.
The chain reaction triggered by Lu Yuanzhou's incident is extensive. Yongxin Trust collapsed, Xiangtai's restructuring failed, and Qingwu Commercial Pedestrian Street and Zhuxiang Ancient Lane Cultural Park were shelved. Each project involved tens of thousands of ordinary people. The forces involved were deeply intertwined, and the problems were inexhaustible.
Hu Xianxun passed the biggest mess on to Zhang Yunqi.
The issue of restructuring Xiangtai Pharmaceutical.
With Hu Xianxun sitting in this position, Zhang Yunqi could understand his concern for the people. The impact of the failed restructuring of Xiangtai Pharmaceutical was multifaceted. Not to mention the issue of what to do with the huge amount of provincial state-owned assets, what he was thinking about right now was to appease the depositors and shareholders who were filled with resentment.
From Zhang Yunqi's perspective, he genuinely had no interest in this. Mainly, he had never been involved in the pharmaceutical industry before. Even though he'd made hundreds of millions in the stock market, what good would it do to invest it all? Was Xiangtai's continuous losses simply due to a lack of funds? Could he possibly revive the company by investing hundreds of millions?
This is a problem with the business model and philosophy!
Those hundreds of millions will just be wasted.
Of course, now that Hu Xianxun has made his statement, Hu Xianxun's words are much more important to him than two hundred million yuan. He definitely has to take on this mess, so he came up with a solution.
Using his company Lianzhong as the main entity, he took over Xiangtai Pharmaceutical, reorganized it into a listed home appliance retail company, and finally renamed it Lianzhong Electric Group.
In this way, Lianzhong Group completed its backdoor listing! The capital required to acquire Xiangtai will not be less than 200 million yuan. Under Yu Lin's leadership, Lianzhong has transformed from a light-asset electronic channel provider into a heavy-asset large-scale home appliance retailer. Setting up a large or medium-sized physical home appliance store requires an investment of 10 to 20 million yuan. In the past year, the rate at which it has burned through money has been very fast. It simply cannot come up with such a huge amount of funds to acquire Xiangtai. Therefore, he must first increase the capital of Lianzhong.
Zhang Yunqi and the three co-founders, Yu Lin, Wang Guibing, and Zhang Qiulan, invested according to their shareholding ratios. Fortunately, Zhang Yunqi held the majority of the shares, while Yu Lin, Wang Guibing, and Zhang Qiulan only needed to contribute 30 to 50 million yuan.
This amount of money isn't a big problem for these three wealthy individuals; they can easily scrape together the funds, and if they can't come up with it themselves, they can use a bridge loan. Once Xiangtai Pharmaceutical's new restructuring plan is released, the stock price will undoubtedly surge again. These three co-founders will still make a fortune. That's the allure of being listed on the stock exchange.
Several of Zhang Yunqi's companies are now ready to go public.
There were quite a few people who advised him to go public, since everyone could make a fortune. As the actual controller, he couldn't just make money for himself and ignore the people below him.
Of course, Liansheng Group is not included, because if a company goes public, it has to be responsible to its investors and can easily be swept away by capital and deviate from its original intentions. However, Liansheng is rooted in the land and has more than 20 agricultural subsidiaries behind it, which are involved in the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of farmers in the Xiangnan region.
In his view, this is a red line that cannot be crossed.
Fortunately, he could keep the other shareholders in check, and the shareholding relationships were quite intertwined. The money that Liansheng couldn't make, Lianzhong could make this time to satisfy them.
Zhang Yunqi didn't get home until the early hours of the morning.
Now, no matter how late he comes home, there is always a light on at the South Gate Villa for him.
Li Yufei was lying on the sofa wearing a silk nightgown. The TV was on, playing "Tokyo Love Story." The air conditioning in the living room was on full blast. The girl's eyes were closed, and there was a gap in the lace trim of her nightgown, revealing her slender, long legs dangling in the air, up to her upper thighs.
Zhang Yunqi glanced at the time; it was already 1:30 a.m. He turned off the TV, picked up the sleeping Li Yufei, carried her upstairs to bed, covered her with an air-conditioning blanket, and then quietly went to the bathroom to take a shower.
It was already 2:30 when Zhang Yunqi went to bed. He didn't turn on the light, afraid of waking Li Yufei, and went to bed in the dark. But lying in bed, he couldn't fall asleep at all, his nose filled with the girl's faint fragrance.
Although he and Li Yufei were already sleeping in the same bed, they could only look at each other but not touch each other, which seems to be the case for most girls who have just started dating.
"You're back." Li Yufei's murmur suddenly echoed in the darkness: "When did you carry me to bed?"
Zhang Yunqi laughed: "It's 1:30, you're asleep."
The girl shifted her body, resting her head on Zhang Yunqi's heart, and the fragrance wafting into his nose became even stronger: "Did you miss me today?"
"Have."
Do you miss me more or the first time we met?
"I have to be honest, right now I'm thinking most about how to make it up to you and her." Girls always like to ask these kinds of crucial questions, especially girls in love.
Zhang Yunqi felt it was better to tell the truth: "No one can deny that you and Chujian are both very good. As a man, to have one of them is a blessing from several lifetimes. Yet I am so greedy, even petty. I can't imagine how she would react if she knew about you, but I need to give her an answer on the premise that her life and studies are stable."
A faint moonlight streamed in through the window.
The girl looked at him, then suddenly tilted her head back and kissed him. Her breath was warm from her nose, and her soft tongue quickly pried open his teeth, their bodies intertwining like vines. Zhang Yunqi was instantly captivated, his whole body going limp.
"You, this... what's wrong?"
"Something's not right, why is it getting harder the more I touch it..."
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(End of this chapter)